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  1. The ipad app is superb on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 0

    It's one of a few that allows airplay streaming in the background, allowing me to freely indulge my ADHD.

  2. Re:InSANE -- why...?!!! on Hacking Group Linked To Chinese Army Caught Attacking Dummy Water Plant · · Score: 2

    "Vent radioactive gas?" [types] Y E S.
    "Sound alertness horn?" Y E S. [it sounds in the distance]
    "Decalcify calcium ducts?" Well, give me a Y, give me a...Hey!

  3. Re:The Onion said it best on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. I'd have to read the manual

  4. Re:Surprising... on The History of The Oregon Trail · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, and hopefully billions more besides can die of dysentery in Plague Inc.. I usually avoid it, since it attracts the interest of the CDC before total infection can set in, and it's not as lethal as "Total Organ Failure."

    Still, parents would probably freak out if the game was used to teach epidemiology to little kids.

  5. Re:The Onion said it best on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    A handheld vertical video recording of an analog television showing a VHS copy of the full frame version of the movie? You're doing it wrong.

    It is supposed to be redubbed in Spanish, with onscreen Turkish subtitles.

  6. Re:The Onion said it best on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Please.IBM's System/360 Model 20 (yes, the entry level model that was barely compatible with a the rest of a mainframe family marketed around the concept of inter compatibility) was sold with as little as 4096 bits of core memory. That was in 1964, not 1899.

  7. Re:Remember this on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    And ironically, Catholicism and Christianity are a WHOLE lot worse!
    It's telling that you think there's a difference.

  8. Re:Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller on Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces · · Score: 0

    yes. This is basic common sense.

    At the moment, the democrats control the Senate; the republicans control the House. Any house chair is a republican; any senate chair is a democrat.

  9. Re:150 lashes? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Western countries, when we we performed lashes it was full force and if just several dozen were performed you are talking potential death, broken bones, and striping flesh off of ribs.

    Just who do you work for? Have you considered reporting your employers to the police?

  10. There is no "objectionable" material on it

    Everything is objectionable, Nothing is truly anodyne.

  11. Microsoft should go back to generics on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Windows, Word. SQL Server,..

    I suggest "Microsoft Cloud".

  12. Re:why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 1

    Well--I always shoot raw, as I can fix a lot of problems in post production.

    20 megabytes per picture is small enough that I've never run out of space on a shoot. 800 images on a 16 gigabyte card is plenty. They don't need to be smaller.

    I wasn't comparing RAW to JPEG. I was comparing my usual file format to the what the lumia apparently uses. And 9 megabytes per image isn't large. It seems rather small to me.

  13. Re:why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 1

    > with interchangeable telephoto lenses?

    don't forget fisheyes, tilt shifts, macros and wide angle lenses. Nikon does make an android device though it lacks interchangeable lenses.

    If a manufacturer were to release an interchangeable lens camera with a good API, it might make a huge splash. Imagine: an entry level camera with 9 shot bracketing or sophisti0cated timelapse features.

  14. Re:why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 1

    I don't care about bokeh as much as I do about subject isolation.

  15. Re:why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 2

    I have an APS-C dlsr. If I put my 50mm f/1.4 lens, wide open, and photograph a subject 3 meters away, the depth of field is approximately 20 cm.
    If I managed to find a 75 mm f/1.4 lens (fast 85mm lenses are far more common), and a full frame camera to mount it on, the field of view would be similar, but the depth of field would be approximately 13 cm.
    Depth of field calculator
    IIRC, the lumia has a 1/1.7 sensor-- bigger than most point and shoots, but smaller than APS-C, or micro four thirds-- with a crop factor of 4.2.

    To get that 75 mm equivalent, the Lumia would have to use a 18 mm lens, with a 39 cm depth of field.

  16. Re:why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 1

    Do you mean to say that the Lumia can shoot raw?

  17. why are you comparing it to a real camera? on Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nokia's Pro Cam app is comprised of a slick dial interface that offers virtually all of the controls you'd find in a DSLR camera

    But can you change the lens? Is the sensor large enough that depth of field becomes meaningful?

    The 1020's camera grabs two versions of the shot; a large full resolution (7700x4300, roughly) shot with a huge 11MB file size...

    My camera produces 20 megabyte raw files, but its sensor is only 14 Megapixels.

  18. Re:In fairness on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    Right you are. If they absolutely had to put an authoress on the banknote, why not pick Mary Shelley, who at least had the sense to write about more than just the prattling of womenfolk. Jane Austen couldn't even write a proper gothic romance-- Northanger Abbey is too self-concious a work, never reaching the magisterial heights of Mysteries of Udolpho. It's almost as if she was trying to parody something.

  19. Re:Forums include slashdot by the way. This is a g on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    "Natalie Portman, naked, petrified and covered in hot grits" isn't porn? Maybe you just don't have a vivid enough imagination.

  20. Re: Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    So men thinking about giving birth to children might want to steer clear of that drug.

    I'm sure that at some level, the monsters who devised such treatment believed that a gay patient settling down, finding a nice girl and having children would have been the whole point....

  21. Re:I agree on Poll Shows That 75% Prefer Printed Books To eBooks · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Roman Empire still here, but the seat of power moved around a bit since the 400s. It's currently in Washington, D.C.

    I agree. The Dune Encyclopedia is an incredible book.

    Atomics were first used to resolve a feud between House Nippon and House Washington.

  22. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should have been less subtle.
    Some men enjoy being scout leaders; they may find it rewarding in ways that have nothing whatsoever to do with pedophilia--perhaps they simply like to teach. And that applies to men who may be heterosexual or homosexual outside of scouting.

  23. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    I read Andrew Sullivan a lot. Well maybe not enough to subscribe, but I enjoy his insights on politics (and to a lesser extent, catholicism and culture) . Andrew Sullivan is quite obviously gay. But... I find it difficult to imagine him discoursing on musical theater.

  24. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is it so important for men to get out into the woods with little boys?

  25. Re:Screw them on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    But The fact that Anthony Blunt had friends in high places was not a military secret. To reprieve Turing would be to acknowledge the fact that Turing's work was instrumental during the war, and the Sovets should really change those locks...